AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarCan Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Evan OsnosThe most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech. At ten o’clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook, opened the front door of his house in Palo Alto, California, wearing the tight smile of …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarThe 'deep state' is real. But are its leaks against Trump justified?verified_publisherThe Guardian - Jack GoldsmithEven the most severe critics of the US president should worry about this subtle form of anti-democratic abuse
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarNazi submarine that ‘smuggled Hitler to South America’ discovered near DenmarkMetro - Zoe DrewettA missing German submarine said to have taken the defeated Nazi leaders to South America after the second world war has been discovered after 73 …
AvatarButtonsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone's Encrypted Data | Gavin Hansonfee.org - Gavin HansonEncryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it. Like it or not, you are your …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarLiar, leaker, slimeball – those may be the nicer things Comey hears from Trumpitesverified_publisherCNNCNN — Former FBI Director James Comey has some tough words for President Donald Trump. In “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey writes that the President is “unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.” He compares Trump to …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarDon’t expect the west to act on Syria’s latest horrorverified_publisherThe GuardianConscience has become the mayfly of our era: here today, gone tomorrow. For the moment, the world is transfixed by the horrific images from Douma, near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Dozens have died, and hundreds lie injured after what was quite clearly a chemical weapon attack. Dead children, their …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarMonica Lewinsky: Emerging from “the House of Gaslight” in the Age of #MeTooverified_publisherVanity Fair - By Monica LewinskyOn the 20th anniversary of the Starr investigation, which introduced her to the world, the author reflects on the changing nature of trauma, the de-evolution of the media, and the extraordinary hope now provided by the #MeToo movement. How do I know him? Where have I seen him? The Man in the Hat …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarMichael D. Cohen, Trump’s Longtime Lawyer, Says He Paid Stormy Daniels Out of His Own Pocket (Published 2018)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Maggie HabermanMichael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, said on Tuesday that he had paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a pornographic-film actress who had once claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump. In the most detailed explanation of the 2016 payment made to the actress, Stephanie …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarCNN Exclusive: California launches investigation following stunning admission by Aetna medical directorverified_publisherCNNCNN — California’s insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients’ records when deciding whether to approve or deny care. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones expressed …
AvatarButtonsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOmarosa says on 'Big Brother' country is not going to be OKapnewsarchive.com - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOmarosa Manigault Newman is starting to tell her story, as promised. And the former White House aide’s story is: America is not going to be fine …
AvatarButtonsAvatarAvatarHow conservatives learned to hate the FBIverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Todd S. PurdumThe aggressive Republican attacks on the FBI are the latest sign — if one were needed — that President Donald Trump has upended the longstanding norms of Washington, as he and his allies in Congress seek to undermine the one institution of government that conservatives have typically seen as a …